Pink Floyd.
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Good God, people, how many threads on DSOTM are really necessary. Just the fact that everyone on AK knows the title of this album by its initials screams, "enough, already". Does anyone refer to a certain Beatles album as SPLHCB? I think not.
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I get this! I'd like to listen to DSOTM about ten times for every one time I feel like listening to SPLHCB... and I do!
The Beatles I "get" because I remember when they first emerged and became popular. I think they are given perhaps a bit too much idolization today, but that is the way of the business --just look at Elvis Presley, or for an equivalent in film, James Dean. There is money to be made from Dead People and defunct groups.
It's interesting how many different opinions come out in this thread; it shows how different we all are in our listening preferences.
I have very eclectic tastes, across almost all genres, although I'll admit there are very few rap/hip-hop songs that I like. Yet I'm picky about individual artists, and even different albums or songs within an artists' oeuvre. For example, I've always liked Elton John's first (eponymous) album, but except for a few single songs here or there, I haven't liked much he's done since.
I love Tschaikovsky, but it's things like this fourth and fifth symphonies that move me, not the more popular but "lightweight" Nutcracker that he is better known for. A lot of "serious classical" people dismiss him as too "lightweight" because of those popular works, but what about Mozart? His stuff is almost all "lightweight" to my ears, and I don't quite get the status he's given, except for the back story about how young he was when he wrote much of it.
In one sense, I can "get" The Black Eyed Peas who just performed in the Superbowl, but I'd be delighted to never hear another song of theirs in my life. The over-processed autotune voice just doesn't do it for me. Having designed some serious costumes, I'm not too impressed with the guys hair cover thing. Star Trek's Borg looked much better. The best thing about their performance was probably the design and precise execution of the show around them (lit up dancers and such), and Slash, whose guitar volume was sadly way beneath the girl singer's voice (bad mixing). I'll take the original version any day. Overall, it was a well-executed show, which I can appreciate, but it still left me not very "entertained".
That isn't anything against modern groups per se; I can enjoy Coldplay, for example, or some Travis and other groups. But The BEP, (most of) Lady Gaga (I'll admit some of her tunes are catchy, potential "ear worms") and some others --while part of me intellectually can analyse and understand their success-- just have no appeal to me, at all.
